10,000 Lost Airmen

In Paul Manning's book Martin Borman: Nazi In Exile, it is reported that the United States Army Force lost 10,000 airmen, 800 heavy bombers and 500 fighters between March 1, 1944 and June 1, 1944 (Manning, Page 108). Our crew was lost almost in the middle of this period.

Certainly the loss of our crew wasn't without precedence and certaintly it wasn't an unusual time in the USAAF to become a casuality.